Explosive.



PATENT UNITED STATES I PETER a. KLINE, F BLOOMSBURG, rENNsYLvANIA.

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- .of Columbia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented c'erwhich the following is a description.

My invention has for its object to produce a powerful tain new-and Improvements in Explosives, of

safe and inexpen'sive explosive powder, which willbe quick acting and will not leave after firing'either smoke or fumes, and which can be quickly manufactured V without danger to the person making it, and without the necessity for expensive apparatus.

, My invention'is particularly intended to produce a powder which will be ready for immediate use without the necessity for grinding it, or for drying it by heat. I In preparing my "explosive, I first mix glucose, mo la'sses and sugar of milk to form a syrup, and into this syrup I stir the following additional ingredients, tannic acid, oxalic acid, turpentine or gin, oak bark, shellac and chlorate of potassium, the proportions of these additional irlgredients being such that the moisture presentin the syrup is at once absorbed and a dry granular substance is formed ready for immediate use without the necessity for further treatment.

The relative proportions of the syrup and the otherv ingredients may be varied, but I have usually used the syrup in the proportion of 50 per cent to 50 per cent of the other ingredients mentioned, the syrup being composed of 20% mo, 23% glucose, and 7% sugaroi milk, the molasses preferably consisting of about 207.? water and 8095 sugar, while the other ingredients are used preferably in the following proportions: tannic acid 10 per cent; oxalic acid, 5 per cent; turpentine or gin 1 per cent; powdered oak bark 2 per cent; alcoholic solution of shellac 2 per cent; and chlorate of potassium 30 percent, making a total of 50 per cent.

The precise proportions may be varied, and other similar materials may be substituted for the oak bark and fpr the shellac.

For some purposes I find it desirable to add a small proportion of sulfur either in the form of flower of sulfur,

; or in the forin of powdered mustard. Tliosullur if used should'noli errcecd a proportion of about one grain to a pound of the powder, the purmsc uf-add-ing thm being tofahilitate ignition.

The shellac may be omitted if desired, without affooting the explosive qualities of the powder, but I profor to use it as it seems to facilitate the quick drying of the powder, and in form a glaze [or the arment-11 probably tends to prevent their deterioration when-exposed to the air.

The sugar of milk may be (unittcd if desired. .The may be used in liquid form or in dry form, as

Specification of Letters Patent. I

' Application filed his); 18,1908. Serial No- 817,565.

Patented July 2, 1907.

out heating, though the formation of the syrup may be hastened by heating slightly.

The'additional ingredients may be mixed together before being introduced into the syrup, but I find that introduced and stirred into the syrup. Whethermixed together before beingintroduced into the syrup, or introduced severally, the syrup should be stirred thor "o ughly. as they are introduced, the' stirring servingto a granular condition.

I have found that'within eight minutes from the introduction of the additional ingredients into the syrup the mass is converted into a dry granular powder ready 70 arms, with which I am familiar, and acts more quickly. In its action it resembles dynamite, in that it acts downward. It is. smokeless and leaves no fumes or I -odor, and ,seems to produce less sound powders.

than gther I have found that powder made as above described, does not deteriorate with age, but on the contrary seems to improve the longer it is kept. It has been used successfully as a blasting powder, and also as a powder forfirearms and ordnance.

It will, of course, be understoodthat I do not wish to be restricted to the precise proportions of the ingredients above specified, as they may obviously be varied according to the precise character of the powder (le sired, as regards strength and other qualities.

as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:-

1. An explosive composition conslstlng of water, sugar. tannlc ucld, oxalic acid, a liquid hydrocarbon and chlorate 2. An explosive compofllflon comprising the following ingredients in theproportions specified, water, sugar, tannlc acid, onlicadd, turpentine and chlorute of potassium. moslvc composition, the following per unit, glucose twenty three per cent, sugar of milk seven per cent, tannic acid ten per cent, oxalic acid five 'l. cent, turpentine one per cent, powdered oak bark two per cent, alcoholic solution of shellac two pcr cent, .nnd chlorate of potassium thirty per-cent.

In testimony whcrcm! l ullix my signature, in presence at two wllncsscs.

I'I l'llEIt A. KLINI'I.

Witnesses Human-l 1 Uranus,

:lnay'be desired. The glucose and molasses either with or without the sugar of milk readily forms a with satisactory results are prod'uced if they are severally spark or fuse or other flame.- It is more powerful than any of the blasting powders or powders used in fire of potassium, in or about the proportions specified. 95

Ingredients in the proportions specified: molasses twenty 10 the'ingredients thoroughly, and also, as tli rhois 65 ture is absorbed, serving to cause the mixture to assurno Having thus described my invention, what I claim- I 

